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Does Financial Aid Cover Summer Classes? 06/16/2024 08:00pm • Many college students want to take a break from the books over the summer. However, for students planning to enroll in a summer term -- whether to make up a class or reduce the length of time to graduation, among other reasons -- the cost doesn't always have to come out of pocket. There are options 7 Best Money Market Funds to Buy for 2024 06/16/2024 08:00pm • Both the European Central Bank and the Bank of Canada have initiated 25-basis-point cuts in their policy interest rates, but their U.S. counterpart has not followed suit. In its June decision, the Federal Reserve again kept its policy interest rate unchanged at 5.25% to 5.5% and indicated that marke 7 Best Cheap Dividend Stocks to Buy Under $10 06/16/2024 08:00pm • A quarterly dividend payment from a high-quality stock may be as close to a sure thing as an investor can find on Wall Street. Even during periods of broad market weakness, the lower a stock's price falls, the higher its dividend yield rises. Unfortunately, companies often cut their dividend payment LGBTQ soldiers in Ukraine hope their service is changing attitudes as they rally for legal rights 06/16/2024 10:50am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Several hundred LGBTQ Ukrainian servicemen and their supporters marched in central Kyiv Sunday to demand more rights and highlight their service to their country in its war with Russia. The servicemembers ��� many wearing rainbow and unicorn patches on their uniforms ��� call Scoring from unlikely sources helps the Oilers stay alive in the Stanley Cup Final 06/16/2024 06:00am • EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) ��� After having a total of four goals through the first three games of the Stanley Cup Final, the Edmonton Oilers broke out in a big way with offense coming from some unlikely sources to avoid being swept by the Florida Panthers. Mattias Janmark scored short-handed three minu LaViolette robs Florida of homer in 9th to preserve Texas A&M's 3-2 College World Series win 06/16/2024 03:00am • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ��� Jace LaViolette robbed Cade Kurland of a go-ahead home run in the ninth inning, Justin Lamkin and two relievers struck out 16 and Texas A&M held off Florida 3-2 in a weather-delayed College World Series opener that ended early Sunday. The Aggies (50-13) will play Kentucky on Don't take all your cash with you to the beach and other tips to avoid theft during a Hawaii holiday 06/16/2024 01:42am • HONOLULU (AP) ��� Honolulu police recently received some attention on social media for recommending beachgoers not leave their valuables unattended and instead take those items with them into the ocean in a waterproof bag. But the police and the Visitor Aloha Society of Hawaii, a nonprofit organizat Benavidez unanimously outpoints Gvozdyk for interim WBC light heavyweight belt 06/16/2024 01:25am • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� David Benavidez made the most of his debut in the light heavyweight division, outpointing Oleksandr Gvozdyk on Saturday night to win the interim WBC championship belt. ���I went up in weight, won every single round and dominated a former world champion and an Olympian as well,��� Springer scores twice, six pitchers combine on 8-hitter as Blue Jays beat Guardians 5-0 06/15/2024 06:47pm • TORONTO (AP) ��� Six pitchers combined on an eight-hitter, George Springer scored twice and drove in a run, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Cleveland Guardians 5-0 on Saturday. Isiah Kiner-Falefa had two hits and rookie Addison Barger had his first big league RBI for the Blue Jays, who are 26-3 w Missouri woman's murder conviction tossed after 43 years. Her lawyers say a police officer did it 06/15/2024 01:05pm • A judge has overturned the conviction of a Missouri woman who was a psychiatric patient when she incriminated herself in a 1980 killing that her attorneys argue was actually committed by a now-discredited police officer. Judge Ryan Horsman ruled late Friday that Sandra Hemme, who has spent 43 years Meet Will Butler, the singer-songwriter who makes Broadway's 'Stereophonic' rock 06/15/2024 10:53am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The assignment was daunting: Write a song for an onstage moment of transcendence. Make it kind of funny and exciting and for a five-piece band. Write it so it justifies an audience sitting in their seats for two hours before they hear it. And, oh, it must plausibly be a rock hit in WTOP Book Report: The D.C. man who brought basketball to Black athletes 06/15/2024 10:00am • This story is part of the WTOP Book Report series written by Terik King. Read more of that coverage. Edwin Bancroft Henderson II has penned the first contemporary biography of his grandfather, Dr. Edwin Bancroft (E.B.) Henderson, a pivotal figure in the history of African American basketball. Cyprus says no let-up to fiscal discipline course as S&P raises country's credit rating to BBB+ 06/15/2024 04:49am • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) ��� Cyprus said Saturday it won���t let up on a course of strict fiscal discipline while supporting economically vulnerable groups and the middle class after credit ratings agency Standard & Poor''s upgraded the country���s rating to BBB+ from BBB. Cypriot President Nikos Ch Victims cited in DOJ report on Phoenix police brutality call on city to implement mandated reforms 06/14/2024 09:34pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� Phoenix residents who have spoken out against police brutality hailed on Friday a scathing U.S. Justice Department report outlining a pattern of excessive force and racial discrimination, saying it lays blame not just at the feet of law enforcement but the leaders of the nation���s Trooper with checkered FBI past convicted of child rape in Alabama 06/14/2024 06:50pm • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ��� A former FBI agent was convicted Friday of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl while serving as an Alabama state trooper ��� a law enforcement job he landed even after he was kicked out of the FBI amid earlier claims that he raped a co-worker at knifepoint. Christopher